Jackson Mississippi Quotes:

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because we hadnt come very far, to say the least. Although Jacksons population was half white and half black, I didnt have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

- Kathryn Stockett

topic: School, White, Black, Jackson Mississippi

The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: New York, Stars, Dark, Jackson Mississippi, Johannesburg

It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

- Tate Taylor

topic: Eye, Giving, Movement, Jackson Mississippi, Eye On The Prize

I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.

- Kathryn Stockett

source: Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.87, Penguin

topic: New York, People, Rude, Jackson Mississippi, Condescending

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays

- Beth Henley

topic: Mother, Play, Community, Mississippi, Jackson Mississippi